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On saturation numbers of complete multipartite graphs and even cycles

Combinatorics 2025-06-12 v1

Abstract

Given positive integer nn and graph FF, the saturation number sat(n,F)\mathrm{sat}(n, F) is the minimum number of edges in an edge-maximal FF-free graph on nn vertices. In this paper, we determine asymptotic behavior of sat(n,F)\mathrm{sat}(n, F) when FF is either a complete multipartite graph or a cycle graph whose length is even and large enough. This extends a result by Bohman, Fonoberova, and Pikhurko from 2010 as well as partially resolves a conjecture of F\"uredi and Kim from 2013.

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@article{arxiv.2506.09767,
  title  = {On saturation numbers of complete multipartite graphs and even cycles},
  author = {Ali Mohammadian and Milad Poursoltani and Behruz Tayfeh-Rezaie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.09767},
  year   = {2025}
}